Keeping it Natural
I think a big part of my own pretty good health is maintained because I keep things natural. That is, I avoid processed foods, don’t drink soda or sports drinks, although I allow the odd glass of red wine (for the antioxidants, of course!) and do drink at least one cup of green tea every day. All my food is cooked by me and I buy all my ingredients fresh, as in fresh vegetables, fish, occasionally poultry although I avoid red meat.
I’ve tried going the vegetarian route and to be honest, it was okay but I missed my chicken curry more than anything else, so I slipped back to eating the occasional meat dish now, even though the majority of my meals are vegetarian still. It’s a choice made for me by the food industry’s insistence in pumping farm animals full of growth hormones, antibiotics and lord knows what else that puts me off eating meat more than anything else.
Yeah, I know… if the artificially enhanced meat doesn’t kill you, the pesticides and other poisons that farmers spray on crops will.
I have a solution in part to that problem and its in growing my own vegetables. Its not enough to supply 100 percent of my family’s needs, but it goes a long way to counterbalancing and offsetting the pesticide residues that farmers and slick politicians try to convince us aren’t in the produce we buy. Yeah, right!
When you grow your own, you control what goes on them. I’d much rather find the odd bug crawling around in there that I can see and simply wash off
than a cocktail of who knows what that I can’t see and don’t know for sure what is doing to mine and my kid’s health!
I’m not so blind that I can’t see that the food industry cannot be beaten, nor can their cover-ups be uncovered so that all will see. Most people will go on with their lives in blissful ignorance of what is really going on and the politicians know it. But there are enough of us that do understand it very well, and also understand that our voice is not loud enough to be heard. So we continue in our little corner of the food chain, eating healthily as we can and praying that the specter of GM dominance is kept at bay at least until our kids can grow up and put things right.
